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Mrs Bayley's - Volume and Capacity

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Mrs Bayley's Maths Class We have been learning about Volume and Capacity. We have been focussing on how much a container can hold. We learnt that not all containers are equal. Some hold a larger or the most or the biggest amount compared to some containers that hold the smallest or least. We had great fun discovering and investigating this! Take a look at our work!

Volume and Capacity

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At the moment our maths focus is on volume and capacity . Today Miss Courtney's and Miss Hollings' maths classes worked together to build creations out of the materials we have around the classroom. Once we finished, we took a look at all of the creations and discussed which ones had the biggest capacity and which ones had the smallest. We noticed that the tallest ones are not always the ones with the biggest capacity. Here are some of our masterpieces! 

Miss Hollings' Superstar Writers!

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Today in writing, Miss Hollings' class practised writing our fast words. We have three minutes to write as many words as we can. Every week we are getting better and better. Take a look at some of our words from today :) 

Miss Courtney's Buddy WOW Word Writing

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Miss Courtney's writing class have been focussing on WOW words! These are descriptive words that make our writing exciting to read. We got to work in buddies for our writing, which we loved. We were given a simple sentence and had to add WOW words to make it more interesting. Our simple sentence was "The lion is roaring." Felicity and Joel worked together to make it better. Their finished story said, "The big scary lion is golden and brown . He is roaring at his favourite food and it is hot and dry . He is very  hot and he has sharp teeth." We then discussed the things we liked about working in pairs. "I like working together because we can share ideas." - Craig "I think it is cool because you can talk about your writing with your friend." - Kaitlin "I loved it because my buddy could help me spell the words." - Florize We also loved the idea of writing on whiteboards as it was super easy to rub off if we made ...

Wristband Ceremony

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 At the end of last term, this wonderful group earned over 50 thank you tickets for showing their people powers, and today they received their wristbands. Ka pai everyone, we are all so proud of you!

Matariki Celebration

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Today at South Hornby School we got a chance to celebrate Matariki - The Māori New Year. This term our topic has been all about Matariki. We love getting to show our whānau all of the fantastic work we have been doing at school. To end the day, we got to go outside and fly our kites together. It was so much fun!